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A travel grant to and from Japan has been awarded to
Dr Stefano Moretti
and Dr Shinya Kanemura (University of Toyama) via the
PMI2 Connect
Research Co-operation Award scheme around the project
`Charged Higgs Bosons as Signals of New Physics' under the auspices
of the
British Council
and
Education UK. This will enable regular exchange visits between
NExT and Toyama over a two year period.
Prof Krishnamoorthy Sridhar from the
Tata Institute
of Fundamental Research (Mumbai, India)
will join the NExT Institute during the summer months
to work on a project titled
`Searches for Extra Dimensions at the Large Hadron Collider and Beyond',
financed through the
University of
Southampton Internationalisation Fund.
Dr Johan Rathsman from
Uppsala University (Sweden) will join the NExT Institute during this month
to work on a project titled `Phenomenology of models with an extended
Higgs sector' financed by a
Royal Society
Short Visit to the UK grant.
Dr Rui Alberto Serra Ribeiro dos
Santos from Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL)
has been awarded a FP7
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship for Career Development
to be held at the NExT Institute for two years starting in July 2008
for research
work on the project `Testing non-standard Higgs and top-quark
Production and Decay at the CERN's Large Hadron Collider: a Collaboration
between Theory and Experiment'.
Dr Guido Macorini from
Trieste University will join the NExT Institute for three months
starting in May 2008 to work on a project titled `Top Quark
Production at the LHC' financed by a
British Council Researcher Exchange Programme award.
Prof Kenneth Lane from
Boston University will join the NExT Institute for five weeks
starting in January 2008 to work on a project titled `Prime Signatures for Low-scale Technicolor
at the LHC and ILC' with financial support coming from the
Centre for Fundamental Physics (CfFP).
Dr Carlo Carloni has been awarded a very prestigious
and highly competitive two-year
Fellowship for Italian Citizens Abroad
from
INFN
to continue working on the research programme
``When Weak Interactions Become Strong'' within the NExT Institute.
Dr Alexander Belyaev from
Michigan State University will join the NExT Institute on a permanent
basis as Fellow and then Lecturer starting from Summer 2007. He is
one of the leading world experts on phenomenology of the SM and beyond
at present and future high energy colliders.
Prof Abdelhak Djouadi from
Universite Paris-Sud (Orsay) will join the NExT Institute for six months
starting from 1 April 2007 on a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship
to work on a research programme involving the phenomenology of Higgs bosons
of minimal and non-minimal Supersymmetric models at present and future colliders.
Dr Carlo Carloni from
Pavia University will join the NExT Institute for six months
starting in January 2007 to work on a project titled `When Weak
Interactions
Become Strong' financed by a
Royal Society Short Visit to the UK grant
and a
British Council Researcher Exchange Programme award.
Dr Stefan Hesselbach
was awarded a NExT post-doctoral fellowship for a
research project on non-minimal Supersymmetric models at the LHC.
A successful application to FP6 within the Series of Events (SCF) scheme led by
Dr Fawzi Boudjema (LAPTH),
Dr Genevieve Belanger (LAPTH)
Prof Wolfgang Hollik (MPI) and
Dr Stefano Moretti (SHEP)
will enable them to run the following Workshops:
Dr Junichi Noaki and
Mr Shoaib Munir
recently participated in the
43rd International School of Subnuclear Physics, held 29th
August - 7th September 2005, at Erice, Italy. They were
both awarded honorary diplomas for best students, based on
their presentations in the 'New Talents' sessions. Shoaib
Munir's presentation has also been selected for publication
in the proceedings volume of the school (World Scientific).
SHEP is delighted to announce that Prof DA Ross has been elected to
Fellow of the Royal Society
(FRS).
This is a recognition for ``his contributions to the development and exploitation of gauge theories, both within and beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics. His work has led to the understanding of the renormalization structure of spontaneously broken theories and to the theoretical properties of the perturbation series in non-Abelian theories''.
SHEP confirms its involvement in
Science with Hobnobs grants to support the Helping Your Child with Science programme. We visit
primary schools to talk to parents/carers about ways in which they can
help support their children's science education within the National
Curriculum. Supported by grants from PPARC
(Jonathan Flynn and Averil
Macdonald, 2003 and 2004/05) and EPSRC (Rob Eason,
Jonathan Flynn, Averil
Macdonald, Gill Reid and Alun Vaughan, 2004/05).
New NExT Visitor (April 2008)
New NExT Visitor (February 2008)
New NExT Fellow (July 2008)
New NExT Visitor (May 2008)
New NExT Visitor (January 2008)
New NExT Fellow (November 2007)
New Member of Staff in SHEP (October 2007)
We are very pleased to announce that
Dr Andrei Starinets will be joining the Theory Group later this year as a new permanent academic member of staff. Andrei has won a prestigious PPARC Advanced Fellowship which funds him for the next 5 years. He obtained his first degree from Moscow State University and his PhD from New York University. He currently holds a position in the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada.
Dr Andrei Starinets has worked on a variety of field theory and string theory problems but he is best known for his work on using a gravity or string theory description of black holes as a parallel for high temperature QCD.
New NExT Fellow/Lecturer (July 2007)
New NExT Visiting Professorship (April 2007)
New NExT Visitor (January 2007)
New NExT Postdoctoral-Fellow (December 2006)
Tools 2010 in Southampton (November 2006)
Les Houches 2007 (France): `Physics at TeV Collider, precision calculations and LHC start';
Munich MPI 2008 (Germany): `Tools for the New Physics and its backgrounds';
Les Houches 2009 (France): `Physics at TeV Collider, working with LHC data, preparing for the
future';
Southampton 2010 (UK): `Tools for the New Physics, sharpening our tools'.
New Member of Staff in SHEP (October 2006)
We are extremely pleased to announce that the Dean has approved the appointment of Dr Beatriz de Carlos to a permanent academic position, Senior Lecturer, in our school.
Beatrice is moving to us from the University of Sussex. Her research speciality is string theory and attempts to connect the theory to observation in particle phyiscs and cosmology.
New Talents in SHEP (September 2005)
FRS awarded to Prof DA Ross (July 2005)
Outreach Grants from PPARC and EPSRC continue through 2005
Successful PhenoGRID bid (November 2007)
Dr S Moretti participated for SHEP
in the successful
PhenoGRID bid, which
granted one PDRA (based at the Durham IPPP) charged with enabling
a consortium of UK phenomenologists to use the grid in view
of exploiting future LHC data.
The Southampton theory group has been awarded a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship (IIF) under the Framework Programme VI (FP6). The grant will fund Dr. Poulose Poulose's research activities at post-doctoral level on the project `A Study of CP-Violation In The Higgs Sector Of Supersymmetric Models' for two years, in collaboration with Dr Stefano Moretti (SHEP).
SHEP will host two PPARC SPGs starting from October 2004 covering for two Post-Doctoral Research Assistant (PDRA) positions plus related travel and equipment money.
The first one is for a 3 year post on the project `Flavour physics, chiral perturbation theory and lattice QCD', with Prof CTC Sachrajda as PI and Dr J Flynn as CoI. This grant will support the SHEP research programme in lattice phenomenology, exploiting the opportunities provided by UKQCD's QCDOC supercomputer (from late 2004) and the University of Southampton's Iridis PC cluster, and building on our experience in the field in general. The project is aimed specifically at performing the next generation of simulations and contributing to the understanding of the next level of theoretical issues in the evaluation of decays of kaons to two pions and related quantities and in hadronic structure.
Dr S Moretti is leading the SHEP participation in the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), as member of the Particle Physics Department at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL-PPD). CMS is one of the two multi-purpose experiments at the LHC, which is due to start in 2007 at CERN.
The Southampton theory group has been jointly awarded a British Council/EGIDE grant for a project involving Dr S Moretti and Prof DA Ross (SHEP) and Drs Fawzi Boudjema and Genevieve Belanger (Annecy). The grant will promote links between the particle physics groups in the UK and France by funding short-term reciprocal visits with the intention of investigating the interplay between the Higgs and sparticle sectors of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model at the CERN Large Hadron Collider as well as the dark matter connection. The grant is worth 4,000 pounds over a 2 year period to cover travel and subsistence and is awarded under the Alliance research partnership programme.
The Southampton theory group has been jointly awarded a NATO grant for a project involving Dr S Moretti (SHEP), Prof SF King (SHEP), Dr Abdelhak Djouadi (Montpellier) and Prof Jan Kalinowski (Warsaw). The grant will promote links between the particle physics groups in the UK, France and Poland by funding medium-term reciprocal visits with the intention of investigating the Higgs sector of extended supersymmetric models at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The grant is worth 12,000 Euros over a 2 year period to cover travel and subsistence and is awarded under the Collaborative Linkage Grants NATO programme.
SHEP is pleased to announce the success of an application to the Royal Society for a Joint Project Grant in the context of the European Science Exchange Programme (ESEP), which includes SHEP members Prof DA Ross, Dr S Moretti and Mr MR Nolten together with Dr Ezio Maina (Torino). The grant will foster close collaboration between the particle theory research groups at Southampton and Torino (Italy) Universities, with the intention of investigating the effects of electroweak corrections to key QCD processes at future particle accelerators, in particular the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and a future Linear Electron-Positron Collider (LC). The grant amounts to about £8000 over a two year period, to cover travel, subsistence and equipment.